In Main Street and Babbitt, Sinclair Lewis drew on his boyhood memories of Sauk Centre, Minnesota, to reveal as no writer had done before the complacency and conformity of middle-class life in America. The remarkable novels presented here in this Library of America...
In "Main Street" and "Babbitt," Sinclair Lewis explores the themes of conformity and the pursuit of authenticity within middle American life. Through the lens of Carol Kennicott in "Main Street" and George F. Babbitt, a prosperous real estate agent, Lewis meticulously critiques...
Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis is a satirical novel about American culture and society that critiques the vacuity of middle-class life and the social pressure toward conformity. The controversy provoked by Babbitt was influential in the decision to award the Nobel Prize in literature...